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My Older Friend

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students interview an older friend and establish a timeline for their life.  For this biography lesson students complete several activities that have to do with a biography of their old friend. 
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Predicting Plant Development

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate the basic needs of a growing plant and make predictions regarding what a seed needs in order to grow. They draw their seed predictions, listen to the book "From Seed to Plant" by Gail Gibbons, and analyze their...
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Plant Inspection Lab

For Students 8th - 10th
In this IPM inspection worksheet, students complete a chart observing the phenological events that are observed at each stage of various plants' development.
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Up From the Ground

For Teachers 1st
First graders sequence the development of a plant. In this plant life lesson, 1st graders listen to a story about how a plant grows, students view a PowerPoint presentation and learn new vocabulary. Finally, students sequence the stages...
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Patty's Pumpkin Patch

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners explore Halloween by examining pumpkins in class. For this pumpkin observation lesson, students discuss the method in which pumpkins are grown and the time line it takes a pumpkin to grow from a seed. Learners read a pumpkin...
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Changing Attitudes: Aging in America Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss how the elder members of the community are viewed. Using the internet, they research how this view has changed since colonial times. They also identify ways in which this attitude keeps changing in modern America.
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The Aging Brain: A Lesson on Alzheimer's Disease

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils investigate the aging brain and its relationship to the occurrence of Alzheimer's disease. They need to have prior knowledge of brain and nervous system anatomy in order to participate in this lesson. Students compare an aging...
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My Older Friend

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore the importance of establishing relationships and how to be more sensitive to the elderly.  In this interview instructional activity students participate in activities that prepare them to interview an older...
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Population Demographics

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students pretend they are entrepreneurs to help create a positive mentality.  In this entrepreneurship lesson students complete several activities to see how to market and advertise to a certain age group.
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Oral Scripting on Aging

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils examine how to broaden the point of view of students when thinking about older people and their abilities.  In this aging lesson pupils complete several activities.
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Ride the Wild Leaf Cycle

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore plant life by completing an Internet activity. In this botany lesson, 4th graders identify the types of plants that grow locally and the different soils they utilize to survive. Students read assigned text about...
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Eggs

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students know the following parts of an egg as the yolk, white, shell, membrane, chalaza, and air sac. They also sequence the growth of the chick in the egg. An egg is broken and students touch, smell and see it. They locate the six...
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Worms Crawl In and Do Lots of Things

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students observe the aquatic segmented worm, Lumbriculus varigatus and the life processes. They explore the processes of nutririon, transport, regulation, locomotion, and removal of wastes.
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Valuing Life

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students hear the story, "The Old Man of the Tree. They review story details and answer a set of questions as a class. Students learn the song, "There is Beauty" then reinact the story, "The Old Man of the Tree," and work in small...
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Laws Promoting Healthy Aging: A Comparison of Japan and the United States Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare and contrast legislation passed in Japan and the United States in regards to the elderly. Using the Internet, they research how the government has put programs into place to improve the health of older citizens. They...
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Genes and Aging

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore genes and the way we age. They assemble a worm collection device called a Baermann Funnel. Students collect Caenorhabditis elegans or other active nematodes from local soil samples. They observe the appearance and...
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Mellowing With Age, A Closer Look

For Teachers K - 5th
Students realize that aging is a "natural, continuous process" and develop sensitivity to the needs, desires, and capabilities of the elderly by interviewing elderly community members and photographing age related things.
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Space-Age Experiments

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students evaluate the notion of aging by reviewing some of the studies that occurred on John Glenn's space shuttle mission.
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Town Budget Meeting Simulation: Meeting Needs of Young and Old Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers participate in a simulation in which they determine the town budget to help programs in their community for the young and old. In groups, they brainstorm a list of the needs of the young and old and share their thoughts...
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Getting Old

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students explore the topic of aging. They study vocabulary related to various age groups, discuss getting old, and role play people of diverse ages. They read the poem, "Warning", by Jenny Joseph and discuss ways to live longer.
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Primary Grade Historians

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students read and analyze books about elders and develop a set of interview questions. They define respect and ways to show respect to elders and conduct an interview with elders. Finally, students write an oral history of a senior...
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Something's Fishy

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students study fish habits and traits. In this marine life instructional activity, students complete four learning centers of a fish memory game, a fish habitat study, draw and glue fish craft activity, and a fish read-a-thon. Students...
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Organic and Inorganic Waste

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students conduct a scientific investigation about organic or inorganic waste.  In this organic or inorganic waste lesson, students create a compost heap to determine the difference between inorganic and organic waste. Students...
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"Lettuce" Learn About the Water Cycle

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scientists investigate the water cycle through a lettuce seed experiment. For this experiment, learners plant lettuce seeds inside of a ziplock bag in order to create a small greenhouse. They observe condensation and precipitation,...

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